Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 169 Three generations have decreed that life and death are irrelevant!
The cold rain pounded against the eaves, making a monotonous and irritating sound.

Carrying the still unconscious Sasuke, Itachi Uchiha quietly slipped into a relatively secluded mansion on the edge of the clan's territory, blending into the night.

The living room of the mansion was deathly silent, except for the faint snoring coming from the master bedroom.

Itachi Uchiha moved very gently, placing Sasuke on the cold floor.

Looking at that face, which still retained a trace of fear in the dim light, a complex emotion, difficult to describe, flashed deep in his scarlet eyes.

But soon, this hint of complexity was suppressed, replaced by an almost cold and resolute attitude.

"Sasuke..." Itachi whispered silently in his heart, "Forgive me, this is the only way to protect you, and also the way to make you stronger..."

He slowly raised his hand and fingertips, reaching towards Sasuke's tightly closed eyelids.

The crimson Mangekyou Sharingan slowly rotated in his eyes, and icy eye power began to gather.

He must recreate the Tsukuyomi illusion before Sasuke fully awakens.

He constructed an illusion filled with hatred and loathing, an endless loop, as a "gift" that would allow Sasuke to grow rapidly and survive in this cruel world.

However, just as his fingertips were about to touch Sasuke...

"Who?!"

A startled, short question suddenly came from the direction of the master bedroom.

Uchiha Itachi suddenly raised his head, and Uchiha Inahime, who was standing there, felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, followed by a sharp pain in her neck.

puff!

Itachi Uchiha slashed the knife in Itachi's hand straight into his throat, and crimson blood splattered on his face, making Itachi's Sharingan eyes look even more eerie and evil.

"you……"

Inside the house, Uchiha Inahisa's wife sat up in terror. Before she could even scream, a kunai was thrown from Itachi's hand and shot through her throat like a venomous snake!

thump!
Behind him, Uchiha Inahisa clutched her slashed throat, her wide eyes filled with disbelief, shock, and fear, while her body slumped to the ground as if her bones had been removed.

"There should be another child..."

Itachi Uchiha, who had brought all this to light, walked upstairs with an expressionless calm.

Killing such an incorrigible radical would not faze him in the slightest.

Now that Zhishui is no longer there to stop him, he will not spare the lives of those radical descendants who have been instilled with radical ideas since childhood.

Before leaving Konoha, all factors that could potentially affect Sasuke must be completely eliminated.

However, as if it had heard what he said, Inahime, who had fallen to the ground, struggled and reached out to grab Itachi's leg.

Itachi Uchiha's crimson, cold Sharingan lowered.

puff.

This time, the knife in his hand mercilessly pierced the heart of the rice fire.

His eyes dimmed, his outstretched hand fell limply, and he lost all sound.

But just as Itachi was about to continue to the second floor to clear the last obstacle, and then use "Tsukuyomi" on Sasuke before rushing back to Shisui,

call out! Phew! !
A piercing shriek, seemingly capable of tearing eardrums, came without warning from the other side of the wall beside him!
The sound was so dense it was like thousands of arrows leaving a bowstring, and an extremely strong chill instantly enveloped Uchiha Itachi.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Itachi turned to look in the direction from which the sound of something cutting through the air came. His reaction was so fast that he didn't even have time to form a complete hand seal, but he completed the seal with just one hand.

call!
A massive, incredibly hot fireball suddenly spewed out of his mouth.

The dynamic vision granted by the Mangekyou Sharingan allowed him to instantly spot countless white feathers, sharp as knives, wrapped in wind-style chakra!
It pierced through the thick walls and wooden structure, colliding fiercely with its own blazing flames.

boom!
A deafening roar erupted, and raging flames instantly ignited the wooden structure, sending countless burning splinters flying everywhere!
However, the barrier of flames was easily torn apart by the feathers wrapped with wind-style chakra.

Although some feathers were burned or deviated, many more pierced through the sea of ​​fire, carrying the residual heat from the flames, and rained down on Uchiha Itachi like arrows!

puff!puff!
The sickening sound of a blade piercing flesh rang out instantly, and Itachi Uchiha's body, along with the wall behind him, was pierced by several hot, sharp feathers in an instant!
His body was nailed to the spot like a broken doll, and blood gushed out like a fountain from countless piercing wounds!

boom!
With a soft sound, Uchiha Itachi, who was pinned to the spot, transformed into countless black crows and scattered in all directions!

"quack!"

"quack!"

The crows let out a somewhat shrill cry and scattered and fled into the burning flames!
The art of crow clones.

The next moment, the crows quickly coalesced outside the house a few meters away from where they were, transforming back into the figure of Uchiha Itachi.

He frowned, his face slightly pale. On his left shoulder, there was a deep wound where a feather had grazed, and blood quickly stained his clothes red with the rain.

But he paid no attention to any of that. He simply raised his head abruptly, his crimson Mangekyou Sharingan locking onto the figure in the air.

Illuminated by the firelight burning in the night sky, a figure silently floated there.

The oversized raincoat fluttered slightly in the night wind and rain, behind which were a pair of enormous wings radiating a soft light.

Beneath the mask's holes, a pair of pure Byakugan eyes gleamed coldly, looking down at Uchiha Itachi below. Hyuga Kumokawa!

Even though the figure was wearing a mask, Itachi Uchiha recognized its identity the moment he saw the wings and Byakugan, and his expression became serious.

This means that all the ninjas from the Anbu and Root have arrived, making it difficult for him to continue eliminating the "remnants" of the radical faction.

"Itachi Uchiha."

Just as he was feeling heavy-hearted and anxious, Hinata Kumokawa's voice, calm and undisturbed, entered his ears with unparalleled clarity.

Hinata Kumokawa's Byakugan slowly swept over the two still-warm corpses lying in pools of blood in the house, and over Itachi's clothes and the ninja sword that were still dripping blood.

The final image focuses on the lingering gloom and ferocity on Itachi's face.

"Tell me, how much of your compatriots' blood is on your hands?"

His gaze, almost tangible, pierced into Itachi's very soul as he coldly questioned, "How many more people do you want to kill to satisfy me?"

"..."

Itachi Uchiha did not answer, but merely frowned slightly.

"Unable to refute? Or are you choosing to resist with silence?"

Hyuga Kumokawa's voice suddenly rose, and he continued with a chilling killing intent: "The Third Hokage and I have already cleaned up those White Zetsu who had infiltrated the Anbu."

"Of course, we already know that it was you! Uchiha Itachi! You colluded with those things called White Zetsu, letting wolves into the house! And it was you who personally planned and carried out the massacre of your own people!"

"And where is that so-called 'Uchiha Madara'?"

"……what?"

Upon hearing this, Itachi Uchiha, who had intended to test how much the village's higher-ups knew, felt a barely perceptible tremor in his body.

Having witnessed Hyuga Kumokawa's terrifying genjutsu abilities, he could naturally guess how Hyuga Kumokawa and the Third Hokage found and eliminated the White Zetsu.

All you need to do is gather all the Dark Ones together and then trap them in a woven illusion, and you can find out who the White Zetsu is within that illusion.

As the caster, Hyuga Kumokawa could ask whatever he wanted to the White Zetsu.

However, judging from what Hinata Kumokawa said, the village only knows about his, Madara, and White Zetsu's actions in this incident, but they are unaware of Shisui's existence?
and also……

"Didn't the village find out from White Zetsu that the people I killed were all radical members of the Uchiha clan, and that it was for 'righteousness' and to maintain the future peace of Konoha?"

As this thought crossed his mind, Itachi Uchiha felt his throat become dry.

Are you kidding me?
If no one in the village's leadership knows his true purpose, doesn't that mean that everyone in the entire ninja world, except for Madara, Zetsu, and Shisui, really sees him as an executioner?

Doesn't this mean that in everyone's eyes, he, Uchiha Itachi, is a complete traitor who colluded with foreign enemies and slaughtered his clan? An executioner?
Looking down at Uchiha Itachi, whose pupils were trembling slightly, Hyuga Kumokawa smiled beneath his mask.

"Itachi, you should just accept the infamy of slaughtering your own people."

"Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"

As the only caster capable of entering the illusion, what did Hyuga Kumokawa glean from White Zetsu? Wasn't it all just a matter of him saying something without any real knowledge?
Uchiha Shisui still has a reason to stay in Konoha for the time being. Hyuga Kumokawa needs him to guide Sasuke, the reincarnation of Indra, so he cannot be forced to defect like Uchiha Itachi.

Of course, all Hyuga Kumokawa wanted was for Uchiha Shisui to stay alive in Konoha.

Whether or not they remain in Konoha in a state of "worse than death" depends on the extent to which the spirits of the Uchiha clan can endure.

However, Itachi Uchiha no longer had any value in staying in Konoha.

Since Itachi Uchiha wants to be the so-called sinner burdened with darkness, then he should go all the way and stop trying to whitewash himself by talking to others like in the original story.

"What so-called nameless hero who bears darkness and righteousness, dying silently as an executioner, with everyone applauding his death, that is the most suitable outcome for you."

With this thought in mind, Hinata Kumokawa raised his hand.

"By order of the Third Hokage!"

His voice deepened, piercing the rain and echoing through the night: "Uchiha Itachi! Colluding with foreign enemies, inviting wolves into the house, slaughtering your own people, your crimes are heinous!"

"The evidence is irrefutable, and the crime is unforgivable!"

"I hereby order all Konoha-affiliated entities to immediately capture him!"

"Life and death are irrelevant!"

The last four words made Itachi's heart tremble, and the moment Hinata Kumokawa finished speaking...

Swish!Swish!Swish!
Several dark figures emerged silently from all directions, from rooftops, treetops, and shadows.

They were clearly ANBU ninjas, former colleagues of Itachi Uchiha, but now they wore cold masks and pointed their weapons directly at Itachi Uchiha!

What made Itachi's heart skip a beat was the gaze coming from behind the holes in those masks.

The undisguised disgust, contempt, and chilling murderous intent were as if he were looking at a filthy piece of trash.

The next moment, someone made the first move, like igniting a powder keg. Dozens of ANBU ninjas rushed towards Uchiha Itachi, who was isolated in the center of the courtyard, from all directions!

(End of this chapter)